Love's Voice (c.1935–1939)Context: Such fable ours! However sweet,That earlier hope had, if fulfilled,Been but child's pap and toothless meat— And meaning blunt and deed unwilled,And we but motes that dance in lightAnd in such light gleam like the coreOf light, but lightless, are in rightBlind dust that fouls the unswept floor

For, no: not faith by fable lives,But from the faith the fable springs— It never is the song that givesTongue life, it is the tongue that sings;And sings the song. Then, let the actSpeak, it is the unbetrayableCommand, if music, let the factMake music's motion; us, the fable.

Introducing "Who by Fire"Warsaw concert (1985)Context: I come from a country where we do not have the same struggles as you have. I respect your struggles. And it may surprise you, but I respect both sides of this struggle. It seems to be that in Europe there needs to be a left foot and a right foot to move forward. I wish that both feet move forward and the body moves towards its proper destiny. This is an intense country; the people are heroic, the spirit is independent. It is a difficult country to govern, it needs a strong government and a strong union. … I would like to say to you, to the leaders of the left, and the leaders of the right, I sing... I sing for everyone. My song has no flag, my song has no party. And I say the prayer, that we said in our synagogue, I say it for the leader of your union and the leader of your party. May the Lord put a spirit, a wisdom and understanding into the hearts of your leaders and into the hearts of all their counsellors.

Garden RoseImagine Our Love (2007)Context: I'll never stop a bullet but a bullet might stop me.I'll never drink the ocean but the ocean might drink me.And I'll never raise a portrait to a gentle man in blueAnd I'll never sing a love song for a love that isn't true. I love how the garden growsAnd I love the garden rose.

After hearing Walter Earl Brown's If I Can Dream, the song inspired on Martin Luther King Jr. that would close Elvis' comeback show in 1968, and the phrase was remarked to its producer, Steve Binder. http://elvis-tkc.com/forum2/lofiversion/index.php/t15948.html